Journal of Biophysics
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 819635, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/819635
Research Article

DSC Study of Collagen in Disc Disease

S. Skrzyński,1 A. Sionkowska,2 and A. Marciniak2

1Department of Neurosurgery, Military Institute of the Health Services, Central Clinical Hospital of the Department of National Defence, Szaserów 128, 00-909 Warsaw, Poland
2Biopolymer Research Group, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Gagarina 7, 87-100 Torun, Poland

Received 19 August 2009; Accepted 24 December 2009

Academic Editor: Hong Qian

Copyright © 2009 S. Skrzyński et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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